Money vs. Mission: How Generic MBAs vs. Physicians Think about Health Care

[Sam1]

On Health Care Renewal, we emphasize problems in leadership and governance in large health care organizations, and how they affect health care professionals' attempts to carry out their mission, and ultimately how they affect patients' and the public's health. Large health care organizations are increasingly lead by people trained in business, not health care professionals, thus generic managers. The stewards of these organizations, the members of their boards of directors or boards of trustees, are also increasingly current or former managers without direct health care experience. Yet all too often, health care leadership is ill-informed, incompetent, unsympathetic or hostile to health care professionals' values, self-interested, conflicted, dishonest, or even corrupt.


http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/07/money-vs-mission-how-generic-managers.html

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Posted to for later reading

[Doctor_J]

2. Absolutely spot on

Even the physicians, CNPs, and so forth are now under the gun. For example, my GP gets paid more if he refers me to a hack who works for the same corporation as he does, than if he refers me to a good MD outside our "plan". And that's just one example. They have enormous patient loads, pay their own overhead, and their bonuses are based on how much money they make for the corporation rather than if their patients get healthier.

And guess what, my fellow Americans. Pretty soon schools will be the same way.